What is MythBox?
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MythBox is a MythTV frontend for XBMC.
Features:
- Watch recordings with commercial skipping
- Watch Live TV
- Create and update recording schedules
- View upcoming recordings
- Enhanced program guide
- TV show and movie metadata (fanart, episodes, etc) downloaded from tvdb, tvrage, tmdb, imdb, and google image search
- View tuner and job queue info
- Compatible with MythTV 0.23, 0.23.1 and 0.24 (Live TV broken on 0.24 due to XBMC)
- Add your own public Twitter feeds
- Move comm flagging jobs to the front of the queue
- Trigger user jobs, comm flagging, or transcoding for a recording
Requirements
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All Platforms
- XBMC 10.10 (Dharma)
- A working MythTV 0.23 or 0.24 backend
Linux
- 32-bit or 64-bit distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, OpenSuse, etc)
Mac OSX
- Mac OSX 10.5 or newer - Intel only
Windows
- Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
MythBox does *not* work on the XBox.
Installation
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XBMC 10.10
1. To install: System > Add-ons > Get Add-ons > XBMC.org Add-ons > Video Add-ons > MythBox
2. To run: Videos > Video Add-ons > MythBox
3. You'll be sent straight to the Settings screen (with an error message).
Fill in all the settings and click on the 'Test Settings' button until
you get a 'Settings OK' message.
4. Exit the Settings screen & enjoy!
Keybindings/Remote Control
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Context Keyboard MCE Remote Action
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Global \ N/A Toggle fullscreen/windowed mode
Navigation Esc - Go back to the previous screen
Backspace Back/Previous Go back to the previous screen
m Win Button Go back to the main menu
Home |<< Go to the top of the list
End >>| Go to the bottom of the list
PgUp Chan + Page Up
PgDown Chan - Page Down
Playing Video x Stop Stop video
Space Pause Pause video
PrtScrn Record Take screenshot
i Info Show program info
o Guide Show audio/video/fps stats
z OK Toggle zoom modes
Tab N/A Toggle fullscreen/embedded player mode
Home Window Context Menu TV Guide Btn Activate popup menu to delete
Coverflow or re-record the selected
recording
Recording PgUp Chan + Goto previous recording
Details Window PgDown Chan - Goto next recording
TV Guide PgUp Chan + Scroll TV guide up one page
PgDown Chan - Scroll TV guide down one page
r << Scroll TV guide left one page
f >> Scroll TV guide right one page
? |<< Scroll TV guide back 1 day
? >>| Scroll TV guide forward 1 day
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History
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MythBox was forked from xbmc-mythtv (http://xbmc-mythtv.sourceforge.net)
and largely rewritten to bring MythTV protocol support up to date,
add new features, and make MythTV a pleasure to use in XBMC.
Many thanks to all the developers whose time and effort went into the original
xbmc-mythtv project!
Contact Info
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Email : analogue@yahoo.com
Bugs : Create a defect @ http://mythbox.googlecode.com
Suggestions: Create an enhancement request @ http://mythbox.googlecode.com
Discuss : http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43115
Acknowledgements
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Thanks to Team XBMC for an awesome mediacenter!
Thanks to the MythTV devs!
Thanks to the folks at www.iconshock.com for the TV icon.